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  Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
 
(...) Technically, yes - you should be using the HTTP "Expires:" header. (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tactical nukes (was: Real Pics Of New Mecha)
 
(...) LOL! "Military intelligence" hard at work. :-, In Starship Troopers (and Ogre/G.E.V.) anyway, this is addressed by the radiation suits the troops wore (as you later note). At some point in the book, when they need to penetrate an area (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tactical nukes (was: Real Pics Of New Mecha)
 
LOL! Good ones, Mark and Jeremy! Hmmm... Here in my universe, Spamnium is too powerful for our reactors to bear... Just last week 12 colonies were whipped-out when one reactor went critical! Damn spam, wish we never even mined it! ;-) Mladen (...) (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tactical nukes (was: Real Pics Of New Mecha)
 
(...) Sure. Look at the USMC...they _issued_ (to the div. level) 1.5kt nukes, that were man portable. Only one little problem...the rocket propelling the nuke had a range of about 2km, and the radiation was lethal at about 2.5km... (...) @22 lbs (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tactical nukes (was: Real Pics Of New Mecha)
 
(...) We at Sproat Labs tried working with Spamnium (including its dirivatives Spamtomium, Spamitillium, and the dreaded Twice-Baked Spamcake), but it emitted so many bogon particles that we quickly exhausted our reserves of Fruitcake shielding... (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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